(How) Does Thinking of Desistance as an Intergenerational Process Reshape How We Think About Social Policy

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Abstract

Using Danish registry data, I start by outlining how we might measure intergenerational desistance, escalation, persistence, and nonexistence.I then highlight how social policies might reshape each of those trajectories, focusing on broad social policy interventions that have taken place over the last 50 years in Denmark.

Author

• Christopher Wildeman, Duke University